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re: Photos show U.S. GIs posing with dead Afghans[W:1146]

You should be licking these guy's asses, because if not for them, your ass might be out there on that battlefield.

Killing on a battle field and mocking the dead and posing dead bodies for pictures are completely different things. There are lines you just dont cross on the battlefield, and especially not well after a battle. I expect these soldiers, who are there representing America. How would any of you like it if you son, brother, father or friend died in Afghanistan and a bunch of people there held up his remains in an effort to mock his death? How about if you mom or wife died and some iraqis took pictures tea bagging her? You gonna shrug it off like oh well its fine. my mom deserve to be violated in death.

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re: Photos show U.S. GIs posing with dead Afghans[W:1146]

meanwhile, as we live in a democracy where Freedom of Speech is respected, an as I am a taxpayer and a citizen, I have every right to commend & condemn our sodliers, when they do good things or bad.

and that's the way it will stay.

Again, you don't what you are talking about...You're out of your lane

The only Law of Land Warfare is stay ****ing alive and keep as many of your people alive as you can while you get the mission done. Anything else are artificial bs rules imposed on an impossible situation by people that are not there and do not face the beast.

re: Photos show U.S. GIs posing with dead Afghans[W:1146]

Originally Posted by Thunder

again with the pathetic race-baiting. is that the only card you have?

You don't have the authority to judge these men. Only a courts martial, convened under the Uniform Code of Military Justice has that authority. They will be judged by a jury of their peers...which you are light years from being.

Originally Posted by Top Cat

At least Bill saved his transgressions for grown women. Not suggesting what he did was OK. But he didn't chase 14 year olds.

re: Photos show U.S. GIs posing with dead Afghans[W:1146]

Originally Posted by ric27

Unless you've seen combat, you don't get to bitch, judge or anything else.

Civilians can't relate to the pressures of war placed upon soldiers, but they can most certainly judge their actions. In some cases they are being idealistic and naive, but there are certainly deviant acts (This one doesn't qualify in my estimation) that call for rebuke.

re: Photos show U.S. GIs posing with dead Afghans[W:1146]

Originally Posted by ric27

Again, you don't what you are talking about...You're out of your lane

The only Law of Land Warfare is stay ****ing alive and keep as many of your people alive as you can while you get the mission done. Anything else are artificial bs rules imposed on an impossible situation by people that are not there and do not face the beast.

sorry friend, but the USA is a signatory of the Geneva Conventions, and the UN Charter. And we have a military code of conduct, which certainly doesn't allow such actions as those mentioned in the OP.

any soldier who refuses to abide by these laws, rules & regulations...has no business in the military as they are likely to commit a war crime.

re: Photos show U.S. GIs posing with dead Afghans[W:1146]

Originally Posted by Hare

Civilians can't relate to the pressures of war placed upon soldiers, but they can most certainly judge their actions. In some cases they are being idealistic and naive, but there are certainly deviant acts (This one doesn't qualify in my estimation) that call for rebuke.